My Spotify playlists, let me show you them

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The Perfect Beats - New York Electro Hip-Hop + Underground Dance Classics 1980 -
1985 - Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4 were a series of comps that came out in 1998 and were hugely important to my musical education. I noticed they weren't on spotify but almost all of the tracks were, so I created a playlist:

The Perfect Beats - New York Electro Hip Hop + Underground Dance Classics / 1980-1985

I nicked the idea, and a few tracks, from Simon H's Downers playlist, and built my own, called Doldrums. Currently 450 tracks of misery and melancholy.

https://open.spotify.com/user/thepoacher/playlist/7AVEQapJJt3xeM95dru26P?si=tp_1pZ2XT9eeAENi9ShMww

I've got a similar list called "frails" where I keep track of the moody, morose and medieval. A lot of obscuro and folky tracks. Main criteria is that it must not rock.

https://open.spotify.com/user/bendybendy/playlist/0lTyO07Zl8C5KJlrG1JnIG?si=Y60_4rfSQX6DGiCBzlcVlA

not mine but v handy https://open.spotify.com/playlist/12Jt5G3hELAh1cEnN8qY7r
ego trip greates rap singles 79-98

I've got a similar list called "frails" where I keep track of the moody, morose and medieval. A lot of obscuro and folky tracks. Main criteria is that it must not rock.

https://open.spotify.com/user/bendybendy/playlist/0lTyO07Zl8C5KJlrG1JnIG?si=Y60_4rfSQX6DGiCBzlcVlA

― saddest kamancheh (bendy)

I like this one at quick glance. You do have many songs that do in fact rock in there.

Yeah there’s more rocking stuff that I recall, and now I’m trying to think about the way my conception of “frail” has changed over the four years of dumping tracks to that list.

crüt should post the 1045-song list he posted about on FB a few weeks ago, it's killer.

ego trip playlist would be cool, but I can't play anything on that one for some reason

I think it's because it's a public playlist of (private) offline files

this works for me but seems incomplete https://open.spotify.com/user/jancok19/playlist/2UGZr7wQ7fYS335myf4RVu?si=Pri7PQSCQj673F11OOGXFg

another ilxor posted this on facebook

https://pitchfork.com/news/spotify-teams-with-ancestry-to-make-playlists-based-on-your-dna/

i find this idea to be bad

and creepy

This headline is wildly misleading. No data is shared between Ancestry and Spotify, and nothing here does anything with anybody's DNA. Somebody wrote a web thing that lets you manually pick a set of nominal genetic-origin regions (you can pick 1-5 of them from a list of 30-ish), and then blends together song-pools from each of them to make a playlist you can save to your Spotify account. I have no idea where the pools of songs came from, but you can see what's in them pretty easily by picking a single region at a time. They seem to be random collections of artists who are nominally "from" that region, but that includes, e.g., Neneh Cherry as "Sweden".

So while you could reasonably contend that this thing is stupid, I think it's not actually creepy.

i think it's creepy. my music taste doesn't come from my genes.

Nor does this playlist.

hm

Treeship just bitter because he shared his genome with spotify and all he got were logger songs and sea shanties

12.5 % would have been norwegian black metal!

wow, I can't believe yr great-grandfather burned down a stave church

it's true

my great grandfather was a young man in the 90s

but not a racist

just remembered what the people were like who burned those churches

I couldn't handle all the Kingston Trio and Limelighters that would populate my playlist.

I can think of no worse playlist than one made up exclusively of my forefathers.

Unless it's Led Zeppelin impersonating people who weren't my forefathers.

I wonder if I’m distantly related to enya. Can spotify tell me?

sure I know her people well

I've been trying to whittle down and fine tune this playlist of essential afro-pop, afro-beats and afro-dance for a while now and it still extends beyond 4hrs. Best listened to linearly, it dots about all over space, time and style, but I was concentrating on mood, a bit like if I was constructing a DJ mix. Some absolute bangers on here by the way - really love so much about it.

https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/0mUf0BU2QzBqVjEY8tOzLZ?si=3zEXWiQ_RdqY8IH2VVxLmw

crüt should post the 1045-song list he posted about on FB a few weeks ago, it's killer.

― WmC, Monday, September 24, 2018 7:43 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thanks Wm! so glad you enjoy it!!

Here's the link if anyone else is interested:

https://open.spotify.com/user/rideronthewheel/playlist/50RvDiL7lWXsxcJ6m177Pj

It's ambient in spirit but not necessarily in genre. Mostly instrumental and droney. It's meant to be listened to as background music, starting arbitrarily from any track. Right now it's 1,045 tracks (not sure whether that includes all the tracks that have been made unavailable in this country since I added them) and about 109.5 hours long, but I'm going to keep adding to it.

Empress Lounge:

https://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/0dAQfoZGFwKQ6j6Npuiu8w?si=VJDHRzoJTF-7fsWnXgbhAQ

I did this one for early listening when having small reunions in my house. Relaxed hip hop and house beats mostly.

https://open.spotify.com/user/cannondale12/playlist/15bYkzTMQGsNzXLaHCTUuk?si=Usa_XmmKRF2Absra4ubzbw
https://open.spotify.com/user/cannondale12/playlist/5LEYrJ6GaVhPpAyCaX9a7S?si=ZU9GOZTvTuOqfJhwKFgAGQ
https://open.spotify.com/user/cannondale12/playlist/1IiOFPncWkVPylA2Vmvj1N?si=Z7e1SjHKSuSDyBQAf8aK4Q
https://open.spotify.com/user/cannondale12/playlist/2QO7Ii7iCYvw1EeceAbXm2?si=WoCNvjhwRAqsAg4EEK3xCQ
https://open.spotify.com/user/cannondale12/playlist/5viaQJo3GnOukqnCphE7vl?si=WiJZD3W5Si20L1pnpRXjmw
https://open.spotify.com/user/cannondale12/playlist/2rPzWPiPccqpmWRF7LWYG4?si=u6i1qGyvRi6cjVAAuxapKg
https://open.spotify.com/user/cannondale12/playlist/6zwlCRhKoducMF4fPSNvCm?si=mX7OxjzSQuGkIt8RbppFTA

thought these were cool - All the songs played on MTV's 120 years 1986-1992

MTV's 120 minutes*

Neat, I should check those out. 1988 120 Minutes had a particularly huge impact on my musical tastes. Just scrolling through that list I can remember the specific episodes I taped on VHS and watched over and over.

The first playlist I made when I signed up for Spotify was the result of a brain dump of all of the 120 Minutes music I could think of. Did not even come close to the amount of music on these. Thanks for sharing.

I made a small one recently of all of the songs covered by Replicants on their 1996 self-titled release.

Here's what have turned out to be my most popular Spotify playlists.
This is an wide-ranging introduction to Greek music with lots of rebetiko, epirotika, nisiotika and demotika.
Here are 8 hours of songs cut at American Studios in Memphis, TN between 66 - 73, mostly with either Chips Moman or Tommy Cogbill behind the board. Lots of southern soul, Dusty, Box Tops, Elvis....
Here are two and a half days worth of Soul Music tracks from the early 70s.

Not too be taken too seriously. Happy 50th.

https://open.spotify.com/user/pplains/playlist/3MXMDn19IJX06FKZEt5SNj?si=kLh-rnO_RsCWFOBni4hQuw

Really pleased with this playlist to soundtrack a video game mushroom trip on a desert island

https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/1jVK51XMMxtWHS3yW5IXaN?si=BlR_xPNaTji31lO6QRw93w

Ooh, that looks nice

cheers, been soundtrack ing my day today and I'm pleased with the 'narrative flow'. starts off a bit atmospheric, goes into a sort of toy town balearic vibe before going down a darker hauntological route and then out again via pleasing tango and fusion. it's weird but it works.

Ρεμπετολογια's American Studios playlist has been good accompaniment for pre-Thanksgiving housework

Thanks! Following

It's not my own playlist, but I've always loved the cafe apres midi comps so much that I'm into this playlist, by a Playstation affiliated account (weird) https://open.spotify.com/user/playstationtmmusicjapan/playlist/2H6ZWg1yiIygSnfeWIMdhL?si=2UU1OfilTVG_65tI9PtUZg

a lil playlist of mostly k-pop adjacent r+b, jazzy-indie, cloud hop, etc. from the last few years that i've been playing nonstop b/c it tangibly improves my mood:

https://open.spotify.com/user/sleepingbag/playlist/3GnjG39DUJo6FDkcsuLvPN?si=4jA3zj7_SLuSyhlGTLXYNw

Me, me, me: retirement party.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/428N7s1Js0cguAuBQLvL7D

Here's an extensive playlist of some sort of 70s/80s glam-prog interzone.

The Mexican - Glam-Prog Slammers and Stompers

https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/1J1zbDqXkTS1GHtLo831o5?si=HP3pyJ1lRNCRufHs274XAQ

This Numero Group playlist of haunted country and rockabilly really gets me. A twang take on the Sky Girl vibe.

https://open.spotify.com/user/numerogroup/playlist/6eqeem7jio7dXYQkT3vF5T?si=0jzgrLi2SGuY-Mg1WvageQ

I created a Burt Bacharach playlist currently up to 603 tracks for the ballot poll currently going on.
https://open.spotify.com/user/wmcrump/playlist/3xk2OUpDgmz8snT69k3NBt?si=bydNcIImSK-Szn7JK9fNFA

My third annual midsummer lineup of droney stuff I've gotten into over the last year:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6uv7HtznMKLRG7W2XvMg5Z?si=GW3NVJclQ0WpQTsHenfNBw

A month late, but bendy I’m really enjoying your Heavy Solstice mix.